A Fox in a Box

Deer Stalkers Lovely hat, just like the one my father wore and which hung on a peg for decades – an earliest memory.  He actually tried to train our new puppy crossbreed as a shooting dog, and the poor thing was never the same again after he came back from those six weeks at theContinue reading “A Fox in a Box”

Poetry Page

If you have a moment then please take a look at this new page where you can find the links to my blog posts with my own poetry in. I write about issues such as my difficult childhood, and my feelings about the late Queen’s possible demise in the pandemic amongst others.

The Handover – by Patricia Goldberg ©2020

This is one of my first ones that I wrote for AudaciArt magazine during the pandemic. I hope you like it but any comments would be appreciated. Make haste ere the plastic tubes on her face lose powerAnd force the last breath from her breast.Her subjects expect her everlasting quiet fear and domination to stay,KeepingContinue reading “The Handover – by Patricia Goldberg ©2020”

The Pangolin

The life cycle of a pangolin with upsetting details. https://www.worldwildlife.org/blogs/sustainability-works/posts/wwf-teams-up-with-microsoft-volunteers-to-protect-pangolins Well one year on from the terrible pandemic that swept the world do we remember the supposed start of it in a wild animal meat market in China.  It was said to have been a bat or a pangolin that transferred the virus mutation toContinue reading “The Pangolin”

Kitchen Conversation

My Poems (2) Grandma yelled out ‘There’s tails in the pan’,And then it caught fire.So soon the draughty back playroomGot a new stove andBecame the hub of the house.But what of the old kitchen,Beneath the loft where I layFrozen with the large windows all around,Bodget and squashTransformed it into a bogAnd a store,For mother’s materialContinue reading “Kitchen Conversation”